Veeam® Backup for Microsoft 365 mitigates the risk of losing access and control over your Microsoft 365 data including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business — so that your data is always hyper-available and protected. It gives you the power to securely backup Microsoft 365 and:

• Protect your Microsoft 365 data from accidental deletion, security threats and retention policy gaps
• Quickly restore individual Microsoft 365 items and files with industry-leading recovery flexibility
• Meet legal and compliance requirements with efficient eDiscovery of Microsoft 365 backup archives

Version 2 enables you to take control of your Microsoft 365 data with backup and recovery of Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive. It includes:

• NEW! Data Protection for OneDrive for Business. Fast, efficient backup of Microsoft 365 OneDrive for Business accounts with the ability to restore and export files and folders with the NEW Veeam Explorer™ for Microsoft OneDrive.
• NEW! Data Protection for SharePoint. The ability to back up SharePoint Online and SharePoint on-premises with fast, flexible recovery of SharePoint sites, documents, libraries and lists with the already-familiar Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint now built-in.  
• ENHANCED! Major ease-of-use and backup flexibility improvements in a newly redesigned job wizard to make set-up, search and maintaining visibility into your data easier than ever.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is a separate, standalone product that is a key component of the Veeam Availability Platform.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 supports Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. It also supports on-premises deployments of Exchange and SharePoint. You can also protect Microsoft Teams when the underlying storage of the Teams data is within SharePoint Online, Exchange Online or OneDrive for Business.

Yes, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 provides protection for hybrid email and SharePoint deployments as well as the ability to migrate data between on-premises and Microsoft 365.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 is licensed on a subscription basis. One to five-year subscriptions are available and customers can choose to purchase the entire subscription upfront, or pay annually. Larger discounts are provided for longer subscriptions.

All subscription licenses are sold per user (minimum purchase of ten licenses required) and include 24×7 Production Support.

To calculate the number of licenses you need, count the number of users within your Microsoft 365 subscription. You do not need to count the same user more than once across multiple Office 365 services (e.g. The same Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business user = One Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 user).

Here are additional details for each Microsoft 365 service:

• Exchange Online or on-premises Exchange: A user mailbox can be a personal mailbox, an Online Archive mailbox, or both — you only need one license for that user. Please note that shared and resource mailboxes do not need to be licensed, and can be backed up FREE of charge.
• OneDrive for Business: OneDrive for Business user licenses are automatically aligned with their matching email accounts. This means you cannot use the same license to backup one user’s email and another user’s OneDrive for Business account. Please note that OneDrive (without “for Business”) is a separate storage service and is not supported with this solution.
• SharePoint Online or on-premises SharePoint: Each SharePoint user inside your Microsoft 365 subscription (or on-premises deployment) that has been granted access to the SharePoint sites you are looking to protect needs to be licensed to backup and protect your organization’s SharePoint environment. If you have a hybrid SharePoint deployment (on-premises SharePoint and SharePoint Online) and the same user has access to both, only one Veeam license is needed for that user. Please note that external SharePoint users do not need to be licensed. An external SharePoint user is someone from outside your Microsoft  365 subscription to whom you have given access to one or more sites, files or folders. Externally authenticated users are limited to basic collaboration tasks and external anonymous users can edit or view specific documents when given specific permissions.

Veeam counts managed users with at least one restore point created in the past 31 days. After a month without backing up a user, you will be able to apply that license to another user and begin protecting it.